![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine the experience of encountering a three-dimensional entity from the perspective of a sentient two-dimensional figure. One day the square is visited by a sphere, a three-dimensional occupant of Spaceland, and his life is turned inside out. In the first part of the book, the square describes for us life on a two-dimensional plane. The narrator of Flatland is a square, literally. In addition to a satirical commentary on nineteenth century social norms in England, Abbott provided an elegant analogy to explain how our frames of reference influence what we claim to know. In the world of Flatland, the more sides you have the higher your social status. In the book, Abbott created a two-dimensional world populated by various polygons as a satire of the social hierarchies of Victorian culture. A powerful lesson about the importance of contextual inquiry comes from one of my favorite books, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. ![]()
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